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Highlights of Women Leadership Program (WLP 2025)
Here is a brief video highlighting the key moments of “Women Leadership Program (WLP 2025) – Breaking the Glass Ceiling”, held at Avari, Lahore on 17-18 April 2025. It was a pleasure for the South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM) to host this powerful two-day learning experience with an incredible…
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WLP 2025: Women’s Legal Rights in Pakistan
I recently had the privilege of training and engaging with a group of truly inspiring women leaders from across Pakistan at the Women Leadership Program (WLP): Breaking the Glass Ceiling, held at Avari Lahore on April 17-18, 2025 under the auspices of South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM). Participants came…
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Fundamentals of Design Thinking
This free video series offers a step-by-step introduction to Design Thinking for students, educators, and entrepreneurs in Pakistan and across South Asia. Delivered in Urdu with English subtitles, the series covers the foundational concepts and core stages (Empathy, Define, Ideation, Prototype, Testing), practical tools like the Business Model Canvas and…
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What CEOs Can Do to Advance Women in Leadership – Musadaq Zulqarnain
Event: “What Can CEOs Do to Foster Women’s Leadership and Drive Organizational Success?” – Webinar by South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM) – 22 January 2025 Speaker: Mr. Musadaq Zulqarnain, Chairman of Interloop Limited. Synopsis In this candid and thought-provoking talk, Mr. Musadaq Zulqarnain reflects on the structural and cultural barriers that…
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Book Review: Managing Diversity and Inclusion
Book Title: Managing Diversity and Inclusion: An International Perspective (Second Edition) Publisher: SAGEEditors: Jawad Syed and Mustafa Özbilgin Overview A wide range of social and economic factors have led to greater diversity in the workplace. This means that the book co-edited by Professor Jawad Syed and Mustafa Özbilgin is ultra-relevant…
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Extremism in Bangladesh is a Threat to Diversity
2016 Targeted killings in Bangladesh: Victims, culprits and countermeasures – Jawad Syed Since 2013, Bangladesh has been repeatedly in headline news across the world due to systematic and incessant targeted killings. In the mainstream media, both in South Asia and the West, the focus has been generally on high profile murders…
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Oscars So White: An Institutional Racism Perspective
Author: Jawad Syed; Courtesy: CounterPunch (2016) For a second year in a row, all of the 20 acting nominations for the Academy Awards went to white actors. Not unlike 2015, this has resulted in a heated debate about racial bias in the Oscars, and the opinions of film artists and activists…
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From Karachi to San Bernardino: In Quest of an Alternative Discourse on Terrorism
Author: Jawad Syed, Cross posted from The Huffington Post, 2015 In the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, the world can no longer afford apologist and politically correct discourses on terrorism. During my recent trip (2015) to Pakistan to attend an international educational and cultural conference in Karachi, I…
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Oscars Diversity Row – Interview with Radio Huddersfield
Prof Syed talk about the Oscars and how, for the second year in a row, all of the 20 acting nominations for the Academy Awards are for white actors. Interviewed by Nicole Reid of Music Radio Huddersfield on 16 Feb 2016. It is no secret that the Oscars have received…
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3% Rise in the National Minimum Wage in the UK
Jawad Syed’s interview with BBC Radio Kent on the 3% increase in the national minimum wage (12 March 2014 6pm) BBC Radio Kent: It is feared today’s announcement of a rise in the minimum wage could put small businesses in Kent under even more pressure. It’ll go up by 19p…
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Sexual Orientation Diversity and Islam
Guest Lecture by Professor Jawad Syed at the SexGen Seminar Date: 30 October 2015Venue: Quayside, University of Huddersfield British South Asian Issues of Gender and Sexuality foreground some of the challenges and opportunities facing British South Asians living in the UK today. These experiences are forged via the intersections of…
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Djokovic Business Case for Higher Men’s Pay in Tennis Harms Equality
Source: The Conversation / The Newsweek In a controversial yet thought-provoking comment, world number one Novak Djokovic has questioned the equality of prize money in tennis, suggesting that men should be paid more as they have more spectators. Djokovic made the remarks following the furore created by Raymond Moore, CEO of the…
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Westminster Briefing in London: ‘Supporting BME People in the Workplace’
Thursday, 5th May 2016 Jawad Syed’s lecture on a relational and intersectional perspective on diversity management: The case of Muslim women at work in the UK The event was facilitated by Jagtar Singh (NHS Trust Chairman) while other speakers included Omar Khan (Director, Runnymede Trust) and Anne Sylvester (Diversity Consultant)
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Postoclonialism, Power and Diversity
EURAM 2016 GRDO SIG Plenary: Postoclonialism, power and diversity European Academy of Management Conference – ‘Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations’ Special Interest Group Plenary speakers: Beverly Dawn Metcalfe, Jawad Syed, Hamid Kazeroony, and Harry J. Van Buren III Date: 3 June 2016 Venue: Université Paris Est Créteil The plenary…
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A Relational Perspective on Gender Equality and Mainstreaming: The Case of Pakistan
This paper argues that single-level conceptualisations of gender mainstreaming and equality within organisational or legal policy domain are inadequate to capture its contextual and multilevel nature. It develops and offers a multilevel perspective on this issue and situates it in the context of Pakistan, a developing Muslim majority country in…
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The Inability to Fit In and Become Invisible
The inability to fit in and become invisible: Narratives of British Pakistani female managers and professionals By Shehla Riza Arifeen and Jawad Syed Paper presentation at the Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, August 5-9, 2016. This paper uses an intersectional lens to explore career experiences of ‘the second generation’ British…
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International Arms Trade and Refugee Crises
The production, sales and export of arms not only enables and intensifies armed conflicts worldwide but is also related to the number of refugees and displaced persons. This is an issue of social responsibility and business ethics of organisations and governments involved in the arms trade. The issue is of…
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Gender Equality at Work in Pakistan: An Intersectional Perspective
Keynote address by Dr Jawad Syed at the 6th International Conference on Business Management (ICoBM), held at NUST Business School, Islamabad on 26-27 October 2016. Abstract This paper argues that the project of gender equality in Pakistan may not be accomplished without taking into account the intersection of gender with…
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Intersectionality and Identity
Dr. Jawad Syed, Professor at Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) at LUMS was interviewed by the Financial Times (1 Dec 2016) about his thoughts on the notion of “intersectionality.” Intersectionality is a relatively new concept, describing how oppressive institutions such as racism, sexism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, classism, etc. are interconnected…
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Refugee and Immigrant Millennials in NZ Struggling to Get into High-Paying Jobs
Report by: Lincoln Tan, the New Zealand Herald’s diversity, ethnic affairs and immigration senior reporter. Tuesday Feb 14, 2017 Despite having a better work ethic, refugee and immigrant millennials (RIM) still struggle to get good jobs in New Zealand, a study has found. A “RIM @ work” study by AUT…
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Panel: Ideological and Legislative Responses to Terrorism
Panel Discussion and Press Conference on “Ideological and Legislative Responses to Terrorism,” hosted by the Interfaith Unity for Tolerance (IFUT). (Symphony Space, New York, 24 June 2017). Panelists:Congresswoman Tulsi GabbardProfessor Jawad SyedProfessor Edwina PioProfessor Tahir Kamran A unique combination of academic and legislative efforts, this event presented a coherent response…
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